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You know, the thing is, if you’re going to be around for 30, 40 years, you’re going to be at the mercy of a lot of things outside of your control. (…) But if there’s quality there and you don’t get desperate and you sort of plug away, things come around again. (…) You’ve got to be patient. The most important thing is you’ve got not to give up.

Virtually all of the 1100 grocers in San Francisco have agreed to make no more than one morning and one afternoon delivery after January 1, Samuel H. Westfall of the State Council of Defense announced yesterday. “Nearly all the merchants in other lines have cut down already to one a day,” Westfall said, “and it has been estimated that 750 men in San Francisco alone will be released for other work through these economies.” “Wholesalers have agreed to reduce the number of truck deliveries to retailers; forty milk distributors now cover the ground of 140 ten years ago, and San Francisco is the only city in the United States in which there are no milk deliveries at night; business of all sorts is cooperating in the effort to economize on man power.” “There is not a town in California today, except those of less than 4000 population, that has not adopted the one-delivery-a-day plan. The housewives of the State have been educated to serve the country by not demanding the delivery of little things.”